River birch (Betula nigra) is a fast-growing, shade tree native to the Mississippi River flood plain in southeastern Minnesota. It is popular for its ornamental peeling bark. As a landscape plant, it ...

with its distinctive peeling white bark to the weeping river birch (Betula nigra 'Summer Cascade') with its unusual weeping habit and petite height of 15 feet. There is likely a birch tree that ...